General News of Tuesday, 21 January 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comDissolve ‘PR stunt’ FX Committee, we don’t need it - Kwame Pianim to Finance MinisterRenowned economist, Kwame PianimRenowned economist, Kwame Pianim has poured scorn on the 40-member Forex committee set up by the Minister of Finance last week, and has called for its immediate dissolution. The Finance Minister Ken Ofori Attah last week inaugurated the 40-man Committee to investigate the cause of the depreciation of the Cedi and make recommendations. Adding his voice to the criticism in an interview with Citi FM, Kwame Pianim described the Committee as a public relations stunt, and must be scrapped immediately. “Dissolve the committee, we don’t need it,” the renowned economist told Umar Sanda on Point Blank. Mr Pianim said that setting such a committee undermines the constitutional responsibility of the Central Bank, because managing the currency is the constitutional responsibility of the Central Bank.

Source: GhanaWeb January 21, 2020 17:03 UTC